SPAGHETTI	Eastern	
Moonlighting in Turandot
Prof. William B. Fischer, A.B., Ph.D. (Yalensis)
Portland, Oregon, USA, and late of Peking, Empire of China
Musician Supernumerary to the Imperial Court, Assistant Plenipotentiary to the Ministers of Execution, the Very Hons. Ping, Pang and Pong; and Advisor Extraordinary to HRH the Emperor Ahtoum and to HRH the Princess Turandot, etc. etc.

There is an overruling wisdom particularly admirable in joining together those things which belong together: Homer with the Trojan War, Raphael with Catholicism, Mozart with Don Juan. There is a wretched unbelief abroad which seems to contain much healing power. It deems such a connection accidental, and sees in it only a lucky conjunction of the different forces in the game of life. It thinks it an accident that the lovers win one another, accidental that they love one another; there were a hundred other women with whom the hero might have been equally happy, and whom he could have loved as deeply.
Søren Kierkegaard, The Immediate Stages of the Erotic or the Musical Erotic, 1843 
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©2005 by William B. Fischer & Syndics of Peking Imperial University